Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 729 583 625
Rank change year-on-year -146 +42 -13
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 53 89 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.048% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.11% 0.26% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 34 37 116
10th Percentile £62,125 £43,125 £56,000
25th Percentile £75,813 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% +2.58%
75th Percentile £106,563 £91,934 £117,813
90th Percentile £113,750 £97,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £83,577 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.70% +15.28% -4.04%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 50,377 34,239 47,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.05% 68.39% 56.87%
Number of salaries quoted 30,943 18,049 27,298
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -3.85%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 27 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -135 53 £85,000 +2.36% 57
London -80 39 £90,000 +9.09% 41
UK excluding London -113 12 £85,000 +1.70% 28
North West -4 9 £85,000 +30.77% 4
North of England -45 9 £85,000 +87.59% 10
Work from Home -51 9 £107,500 +43.33% 29
Midlands -29 3 £102,500 +7.89% 1
East Midlands -19 2 - -
West Midlands -34 1 £102,500 +7.89% 1

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.66%) Confluence
2 2 (3.77%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) FLEXCUBE
1 2 (3.77%) Misys Opics
1 2 (3.77%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.89%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (39.62%) AWS
2 14 (26.42%) Azure
3 8 (15.09%) Amazon S3
4 6 (11.32%) GCP
5 4 (7.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (7.55%) Snowflake
6 3 (5.66%) SaaS
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (3.77%) Collibra
7 2 (3.77%) Datadog
7 2 (3.77%) Figma
7 2 (3.77%) Google Analytics
7 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (3.77%) Serverless
7 2 (3.77%) Vertex AI
8 1 (1.89%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) BGP
1 2 (3.77%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (3.77%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (3.77%) Firewall
1 2 (3.77%) LAN
1 2 (3.77%) OSPF
1 2 (3.77%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.77%) VoIP
1 2 (3.77%) VPN
1 2 (3.77%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.77%) Data Mart
2 2 (3.77%) Metadata
2 2 (3.77%) Mixpanel
2 2 (3.77%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (3.77%) Oracle ODI
2 2 (3.77%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.77%) Pinecone
3 1 (1.89%) MySQL
3 1 (1.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Git
2 4 (7.55%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) GitLab
General
1 46 (86.79%) Banking
2 33 (62.26%) Finance
3 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
4 6 (11.32%) Retail
5 5 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (7.55%) Law
7 3 (5.66%) Investment Banking
7 3 (5.66%) Marketing
8 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.77%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (3.77%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Advertising
9 1 (1.89%) Electronics
9 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (37.74%) Senior
2 11 (20.75%) Developer
3 10 (18.87%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (16.98%) Senior Developer
5 8 (15.09%) AWS Developer
5 8 (15.09%) Azure Developer
5 8 (15.09%) Cloud Developer
6 6 (11.32%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (11.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (11.32%) Lead
6 6 (11.32%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 5 (9.43%) Data Scientist
7 5 (9.43%) Lead Data Scientist
7 5 (9.43%) Senior Data Scientist
8 4 (7.55%) Auditor
8 4 (7.55%) IT Auditor
8 4 (7.55%) Product Manager
8 4 (7.55%) Python Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Senior Auditor
8 4 (7.55%) Senior IT Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) Terraform
2 6 (11.32%) NumPy
2 6 (11.32%) Pandas
3 5 (9.43%) scikit-learn
3 5 (9.43%) XGBoost
4 3 (5.66%) Kafka
5 2 (3.77%) 802.1X
5 2 (3.77%) CrewAI
5 2 (3.77%) GraphQL
5 2 (3.77%) LangChain
5 2 (3.77%) LangGraph
5 2 (3.77%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (3.77%) RESTful
5 2 (3.77%) Spring
5 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.89%) jQuery
6 1 (1.89%) OAuth
6 1 (1.89%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.89%) PySpark
6 1 (1.89%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.75%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.43%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.77%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.77%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.77%) Mobile Wallet
4 1 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.89%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.89%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.96%) Analytics
1 18 (33.96%) DevOps
2 13 (24.53%) Digital Banking
3 12 (22.64%) AI
3 12 (22.64%) CI/CD
4 11 (20.75%) Agile
4 11 (20.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (18.87%) Product Management
6 9 (16.98%) Decision-Making
6 9 (16.98%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (15.09%) Microservices
8 7 (13.21%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (13.21%) Validation
9 6 (11.32%) Data Analytics
9 6 (11.32%) Data Science
9 6 (11.32%) Data Transformation
9 6 (11.32%) Product Strategy
9 6 (11.32%) Roadmaps
9 6 (11.32%) Wealth Management
10 5 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.30%) Python
2 10 (18.87%) SQL
3 6 (11.32%) Java
4 2 (3.77%) C#
4 2 (3.77%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (5.66%) Degree
2 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (3.77%) CCNP
2 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (1.89%) APMG
3 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) Data Quality
1 7 (13.21%) GDPR
2 5 (9.43%) EU AI Act
3 2 (3.77%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.77%) PMO
3 2 (3.77%) PSD2
3 2 (3.77%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.89%) GRC
4 1 (1.89%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Check_MK
2 2 (3.77%) Grafana
2 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (7.55%) Databricks
1 4 (7.55%) Google
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.66%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.77%) Amplitude
3 2 (3.77%) Cisco
3 2 (3.77%) Informatica
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle
3 2 (3.77%) Palo Alto
3 2 (3.77%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.89%) EMC
4 1 (1.89%) Revolut
4 1 (1.89%) Workday